Wednesday, February 14, 2024
'Mercury,' by Steve Yockey, the creator/showrunner of HBO Max's 'The Flight Attendant,' and 'Middle of the World' by TV executive Juan José Alfonso spin yarns designed to hook restless audi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
'English' by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego's Old Glob…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMSaturday, February 3, 2024
James Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMThursday, February 1, 2024
A radical reworking of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne gets its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:22PMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Retired Yale School of Drama professor Gordon Rogoff died at 92. Theater critic Charles McNulty, his former student, shares an appreciation of Rogoff's legacy.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Broadway star and three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera achieved her diva-dom through sheer hard work, humility and humanity.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58PMSunday, January 28, 2024
'POTUS,' Selina Fillinger's farce about the women charged with keeping a misbehaving president in line, has its L.A. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in a production directed by Jennifer Cha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Kate Berlant plays an actor unable to cry on cue in her solo show 'Kate,' directed by Bo Burnham, at the Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, January 21, 2024
The talented political parodist Randy Rainbow skewers Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis at the Orpheum Theatre, while announcing a new book.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:58PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
In 2023, the theater lost many notables with long careers, including Michael Gambon, Frances Sternhagen, Glenda Jackson, Barry Humphries and Michael Blakemore. Praising those we lost makes t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:32PMFriday, December 15, 2023
With Aubrey Plaza, John Turturro and Dianne Wiest on its stages, new musicals from Alicia Keys and Stephen Sondheim and critically hailed new plays by Annie Baker and David Adjmi, downtown u…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMMonday, December 11, 2023
David Hyde Pierce is in the cast of "Here We Are," Stephen Sondheim's final musical, at the Shed in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Matthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 satiric novel 'Babbitt' in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMonday, December 4, 2023
Alex Edelman's 'Just for Us,' the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
The world premiere of 'Hell's Kitchen,' the semi-autobiographical musical by Alicia Keys, features a book by Kristoffer Diaz and sublime vocals by a cast that re-interprets some of Key's big…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:44PMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Aubrey Plaza, fresh off her 'White Lotus' success, makes her stage debut off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' starring opposite Christopher Abbott.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Nikkole Salter's "Lines in the Dust" at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMonday, November 13, 2023
Comedian Alex Edelman brings his acclaimed Broadway show, in which he muses on Jewish identity, empathy and how he came to hang out with a group of white nationalists, to the Mark Taper Foru…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:20PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
Robert Brustein was a kingly critic with sometimes controversial opinions; don't discount his influence on American theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
Alfred Molina, John Douglas Thompson and Chris Perfetti star in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of 'Inherit the Wind,' the Scopes "monkey" trial drama, directed by Michael Michetti.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMWednesday, November 1, 2023
East West Players doesn't pull any punches in its revival of "Spring Awakening," the Tony-winning musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
In 'Life Sucks,' Aaron Posner takes his inspiration from Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a playful, contemporary reworking directed by Barry Heins at Los Angeles' Broadwater Main Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AMMonday, October 23, 2023
Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench's 'Birds of North America' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in a production starring Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMMonday, October 16, 2023
Samuel Baum's 'The Engagement Party,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, opens at the Geffen Playhouse with a cast that includes Jonah Platt, Bella Heathcote and Wendie Malick.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMFriday, October 6, 2023
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMWednesday, October 4, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's stunning "Infinite Life" has its world premiere off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in a co-production with Britain's National Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Playwright Luis Alfaro's latest work 'The Travelers,' presented by Latino Theater Company, creates an imaginative world unto its own onstage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:40PMFriday, September 22, 2023
"Henry Johnson," a new play by David Mamet, is in its world premiere run at the Electric Lodge in Venice.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Daniel K. Isaac stars in 'Every Brilliant Thing,' a play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:50PMThursday, September 14, 2023
'The Bluest Eye,' Toni Morrison's first novel, is presented at A Noise Within in a stage adaptation by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Andi Chapman.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:06PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
Amy Brenneman stars in the L.A. premiere of Adam Rapp's 'The Sound Inside' at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Cameron Watson.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:09PM 
